Monday
Feb152010
by 
Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Boulton pulls the strings
Feb 15, 2010 Climate: CRU Climate: Russell Well, well, well. You really can't pull the wool over Steve McIntyre's eyes can you? It turns out that the issues paper for the CRU emails review was written, not by Sir Muir Russell, but by Professor Geoffrey Boulton, the secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the body that is supplying the secretariat to the review, the man who works along the hall from Hockey Team staffers, the man who promotes global warming, the man who stands in breach of the panel's own rules but refuses to stand down.
No wonder he's staying put - he's running the show.
Update on Feb 15, 2010 by
Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill
In the comments to the CA piece, Mr Pete notes that the PDF was generated from a Word file and that the Word file's author was Boulton too.
Reader Comments (17)
Nature has a new interview with Jones who says he can't discuss certain things because of the inquiry, start of it here:
http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/2010/02/climatologist_phil_jones_fight.html
Very sad state of affairs.
I seem to recall a simple search when the investigation was anounced would have revealed the "impact of climate change on Scotland link", but you don't even need to look at the documents.
Just look at the "links" page - all are links to "Alarmist" websites, not one link (for example) to CA, which deserves to be there on author merit, surely.
Sorry I forgot the link
http://www.cce-review.org/Links.php
Bugger me!
I wouldn't be surprised to see a copy of the reviews' findings leaked before the end of the week, (written by Boulton in December?)
OMG!!! Somebody on the review panel printed a document!! Everybody freak out!!
And what's that Sir Muir doing there, after all?
This is an absolute scandal. Can't someone make a BIG noise about this? It's just outrageous, there is far, far more reason for Boulton to step down than there was even for Mr Nature Editor to step down, and there was more than enough reason for that.
There's another frightening aspect to this whole business: David Cameron. It's scary enough that Brown tries to advance the agenda inspite of all these revelations; why the silence from Cameron?
Concerned people who write to him on the subject get a ghastly, patronising reply back saying the science is settled.
Yer Grace
Tomorrow is the next scheduled meeting of the UEA's Faculty of Science Research Office, Research Executive Committee.
Chair: Professor Kerry Turner
Members:
Professor Philip Jones
Professor Neil Adger
Dr Jan Alexander
Professor Tim Lenton
Dr Brett Day
Dr Andrew Manning
Secretary: Dr Janice Darch
Schedule of meetings
23 September 2009 2pm. 9 December 2009 2pm.
17 February 2010 2pm. 12 May 2010 2pm.
http://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/acad_depts/env/all/resgroup/cserge/
I wonder who replaced Prof Jones.
Yer Grace
Ah! I found an ethics committee for the Science Faculty at UEA
http://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/acad_depts/env/all/resgroup/cserge/
Its next meeting is 2 March and Prof Jones is not a member.
Yer Grace
Ooops and ooops
The link in the last post re the Science Ethics Committee should be
http://www.uea.ac.uk/sci/sciresearch/resexeccoms/scieths
and the first one on the Environment Faculty Committee
http://www.uea.ac.uk/sci/sciresearch/resexeccoms/env
It seems that UEA has a history of idiocy, see this Monty Sketch about 2:44 mins in.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJB2Q9gh2uE
Apologies, should be Monty Python sketch of course.
Seems like I must be the village idiot, URL should be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNBNqUdqm1E
Face > Palm
Nothing surprises me at this point in time. Tomorrow I may read that due to his recent availability and his unique familiarity with the topic at hand, Phil Jones has been enlisted to join the Muir Russel CRU inquiry panel.
My mom had an expression that I seldom repeat, but with regards to the Global Warming Industrialists I believe it fits. "How in the hell do you put your pants on in the morning with balls so big?"
http://www.glasgowguardian.co.uk/news/head-to-head-with-sir-muir-russell/
Q. "You have also faced recent criticism over the revelation that you are the highest paid university principal in Scotland – what is your response to this?"
Sir Muir Russell, "I don’t decide my pay – a committee decides it and although I am on that committee for the purposes of other people’s salaries, when they are talking about me I am asked to leave. It’s a completely independent process and they have evidence of what are the going rates and the trends across the sector."
It raises an interesting question. How independent is this process when other committee members have to decide on the salary of a person who decides how the same committee members are themselves paid?
Conflicts of interest, double standards, hypocrisy? It seems Sir Muir Russell makes Sir Humphrey look positively saintly.
It appears the investigation's conclusions may be developed in a manner similar to that employed in developing the hockey stick.